Chisholm 1801Chisholm,
Colin 1801. An Essay on the Malignant Pestilential Fever,
Introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the Coast of Guinea,
as it Appeared in 1793, 1794, 1795, and 1796: Interspersed with Observations
and Facts, Tending to Prove that the Epidemic Existing at Philadelphia,
New-York, &c. was the Same Fever Introduced by Infection Imported from the
West Indian Islands; and Illustrated by Evidences Found on the State of Those
Islands, and Information of the Most Eminent Practitioners Residing on
Them, 2nd edn, 2 vols, London: J. Mawman
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Burton 1621[Burton,
Robert] 1621. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is. With all the
Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of it. In Three
Maine Partitions with their Severall Sections, Members, and Subsections.
Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut up. By Democritus
Junior. With a Satyricall Preface, Conducing to the Following Discourse,
Oxford: H. Cripps
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An introduction directs the reader to 'Frances, Lord VerulamBacon, Francis, 1st Viscount St Alban
(1561–1626)
DSB
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who has been lately be-scoped and tendencied by
Macvey Napier,
Esq.Napier, Macvey
(1776–1847)
ODNBCloseView the register entry >>' (88). 'Geologers all, great, middling, and small, / Whether
fiery Plutonian or wet Neptunist, / Most gladly, it seems, seek proofs for
their schemes, / In the water, or spirit, of a jug of gin-twist' (90). These
'grubbers of ground' forget all other rocks, thinking only of 'quartz / I mean
of the quarts in a jug of gin-twist' (90).

'In all ages the Devil has rendered great service to the learned'.
'TertullianTertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus)
(c. 160–c. 220)
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us, that the Devil is so good a natural philosopher, that he can carry a sieve
full of water, without spilling a drop!'.

Mirror of Literature, 1 (1822–23), 109–10.

War and Commerce

Anon

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

War, Commerce, Chemistry, Agriculture

Details the importation of human and animal bones from the scenes of recent
European battles, and their use in producing agricultural fertilizers.

Spoof reports are given, dated May 1917, detailing the building of bridges
across the River Thames and the English Channel, the explosion of a
steam-propelled balloon, the manufacture of a 'pocket-gass-apparatus', the
'discovery of the soap-mine at the Giant's-causeway', the discovery of the
longitude by 'Professor Muggins, of the University of Salisbury-plain' (by
utilizing the supposed property of the potato 'of increasing in specific
gravity in proportion as it is distant from the place of its growth'), and the
building of a tunnel under the Alps.

One of the epigramists informs the company 'that in his village resided a
physician and a vicar, who often walked arm in arm together. He thus introduces
the following epigram: 'How D. D. Swaggers, M. D. rolls! / I dub them both a
brace of noddies, / Old D. D. has the Cure of souls / And M. D. has the Care of
bodies. / Between them both, what treatment rare / Our souls and bodies must
endure, / One has the Cure without the Care, / And one the Care without the
Cure' (292).

'Anxious to give the earliest account of every new discovery connected with
the arts, we this week present our readers with an additional engraving—a
view of a New Carriage invented by Mr. Birch, an eminent coachmaker, of Great
Queen-street.'

Arago 1823Arago, Jacques Etienne
Victor 1823. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World in the Uranie
and Physicienne Corvettes: Commanded by Captain Freycinet, During the Years
1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820; on a Scientific Expedition Undertaken by Order of
the French Government. In a Series of Letters to a Friend ... To Which is
Prefixed, the Report Made to the Academy of Sciences, on the General Results of
the Expedition, London: Treuttel & Wurtz, Treuttal, jun. &
Richter
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The account concludes by observing that the city 'exhibits one of those
geological changes which has so long engaged the attention of philosophers, the
sea having now retired from it upwards of five miles' (431).